Elementary PF

Example

Domain Characteristics

1.   Required Behavior

 

Door Controller;

Traffic Lights Controller;

Sluice-Gate to control irrigation channel

real world - spontaneous, controllable, physically causal

2.   Commanded Behavior

Cruise-control in automobile

real world - spontaneous, controllable, physically causal;

operator – autonomous, spontaneous, biddable

3.   Simple Workpieces

Text editor

workpieces - inert, lexical, controllable

operator – autonomous, spontaneous, biddable

4.   Information display

Car odometer

real world - autonomous, physically causal, spontaneous

5.   Transformation

Compile source program to executable program

inputs - inert, static, lexical